“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
― Leo Rosten
Art by Nadezhda Illarionova.
He couldn’t be captured in a phrase
Or one hundred…
He was like no one,
He was like a foreign country
That you travelled through
Eerie landscapes and glistening lakes
Towards horizons
Camouflaged in mists
Precluding
Happiness
once felt
And dreamed about.
He was like a giant umbrella
In bright colors
Protective of winds and shadows
Bandaging unseen wounds
In tenderness and
Love.
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Art – Harald Sohlberg
Reposting an old poem written in 2015
“Remedios laughs, but her laughter resonates in another world,” wrote Octavio Paz about the Spanish surrealist in an article entitled, “Apparitions and Disappearances.”
https://aldianews.com/articles/culture/social/remedios-varo-witch-mexican-surrealism/57974
Art – Remedios Varo
“Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.”
― Michael Ondaatje,The English Patient
…As among dunes you can only see God or who you want. To see.
No assault to the imagination. No questions and whispers by people.
Only the wind carries wishes afar.
A poem soaring above the dunes brings the clarity of music and has the speed of sound.
And we get to see the glassy shine of Orion…
Love among deserts is never the same.
Part of magic deserts by Ivan Fedorovich Choultse.
https://medium.com/blueinsight/deserts-5edc8c8b256a
“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
–Alfred Lord Tennyson,- ‘Ring Out, Wild Bells’.
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Emile Branchard – Winter Night c.1930′s
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
– T.S. Eliot
Happy New Year
Art – Japanese Lantern by Oda Krohg, 1886
Honored to be writer and editor for Blue Insights Medium Publication
“Sharing emotions — Spark plugs to ignite your virtual humanity. Be heard!“
We want to offer our writers to grow, and let their contributions grow as a collective by launching our very own digital ‘Blue Insights Magazine’.
‘Blue Insights Magazine’ volumes will group different thematic issues that will feature the best voices based on our monthly Cultural Prompts.
https://medium.com/blueinsight/blue-insights-magazine-89efffc9ae84
Modified photo with Maii new Blue Insights’ logo
May Christmas be Merry!
Have a most fortunate Yuletide!
Illustration – Salvator Dali‘s striking Christmas design for ‘Vogue’ 1946
“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams” – Zdzisław Beksiński
Art – Zdzisław Beksiński
“If I had asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses.” -Henry Ford.
If I had asked my students what they wanted they would have said an English-Romanian translation course.
Not having asked and keeping my head and thoughts firmly outside the box, I ask you to speak English.
I ask you to think creatively and transform your thoughts in a story …
Don’t worry about your mistakes.
As long as you don’t take them anywhere with you or tuck them in every chilly evening … you will be fine…
At my courses I give you the user manual for transforming your thoughts in a simple English story.
A seasonal picture upon a magnificent story. Source: D.j.Jeschke.
